Global IT Infrastructure Architect

Brought on by the corporate CIO to lead the needs assessment, development, and implementation of a global IT strategy encompassing technology standards and global IT infrastructure. Executed a worldwide benchmarking study across the $73M, 390-employee, highly decentralized IT services organization to develop a long-term strategy that remains today as the company's guiding principle for IT across all organizational levels. Served as the chief liaison among CIOs heading 8 individual business units.

Achieved more than $6M in sustained annual savings with the successful completion of this turnkey IT strategic Shared Services initiative.

Acknowledged with the CIO Award of Significant Contribution for directly impacting profitability through critical IT cost savings.

Instituted streamlined, consistent IT services delivery by consolidating back office IT services from 10 business units into a single, independent Shared Services business unit to support all of North, South, and Latin America representing nearly 70% of Dole's overall revenues.

Realized $1.2M in overall savings while improving telecommunications infrastructure reliability and availability with the global consolidation and redesign of the networking services and service providers.

Lead Infrastructure Architect

Designed and managed engineering and IT based projects under Communications Engineering Capital Program Management.

Reduced maintenance cycle time by 90% by designing a user-friendly and scalable maintenance application.

Created and led the first ever-mentoring forum for NYCT to connect cross-functional departments.

Increased the success rate on data backup from 44% to 99.5% through the identification and implementation of multiple critical fixes for the digital recording system.

Candidate Info

7

years in workforce

5

years at this job

BS

Electronics Engineering

MS

Electrical Engineering Major

5

Sr. Infrastructure Architect

Responsible for developing data center and infrastructure architectures, strategies and designs, product and technology selection, asset management, and capacity provisioning for both internal business and product computing infrastructures.

Developed a global VMware ESX based server virtualization architecture that resulted in a 40% reduction in data center space and power costs and reduced server provisioning times by half.

Developed a consolidated global infrastructure for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync, scaled for 22,000 users that reduced the need for several data centers to just two.

Technical project lead for several server, storage, and management tool vendor studies from the request for proposal to the final contract, which resulted in global standards and 20% cost reductions.

Designed a multi-tenant virtual solution to provide IaaS/SaaS service for customers that resulted in the elimination of an outsourced data center contract.

Managed a global redeploy process to re-assign underutilized server and storage assets that reduced new purchases by 30%

Provided technical consulting for an assessment of global cloud service providers.

Reviewed all infrastructure capacity requests for compliance with security and internal business controls.

Technical Infrastructure Architect - Unix/linux

Generated over $15M in savings over three years and an additional $2.5M in cost avoidance. Transformed ad-hoc, project-owned islands to an N-tier J2EE, PCI supporting, infrastructure. Redeployed assets, retired over 75 servers through consolidation, and reuse of hardware and software.

Chief Infrastructure Architect

Developed and implemented a custom web-based identity management system to automate the on-boarding and off-boarding of employees across all technologies (PeopleSoft, Remedy, Active Directory, Exchange, and many others).

Provided strategic technology vision to executives to forecast growth and allocations against projected company revenues and initiatives.

Designed the migration plan to Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000, and led the implementation team.

Implemented the Microsoft Terminal Server environment for Customer Care Centers, which dramatically reduced the support costs, while increasing productivity and enhancing workflow.

Developed custom applications for such internal functions as Exchange Directory updates, web based paging software, and many others.

Candidate Info

3

years in workforce

1

year at this job

9

Infrastructure Architect & Chief Information Security Officer

Develop and maintain the overall logical and technical IT architecture of virtualization, servers, networks, and security. Provide vision and lead strategic security planning for evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future security technologies. Provide technical leadership and consulting across the organization, from strategic recommendations down to the project planning level. Provide direction, and training to IT team members. Develop plans for IT infrastructure, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities. Provide 4th level support/escalation for infrastructure issues. System administration. Network monitoring.

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